Others delighted in misfortunes strange,
The sports of fortune in her love for change.
Some spoke of wonders they before had seen,
When on their travels they had wandering been: 540
How they had sail’d the world about, and found
The sailing plain, although the world was round;
How they beheld for months th’ unsetting sun; }
What deeds they saw! what they themselves had done!— }
What leaps at Rhodes!—what glory then they won! }
There were who spoke in terms of high disdain